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| - Let me just say in advance that I'm a devoted NPR listener who is environmentally friendly, opposed to war and strongly oppose the conservative right stance on just about everything. I have to admit that I loved every moment that I was at The Gun Store in Las Vegas.
When you're done throwing your money away at the craps table and the dealer has taken your shorts in those really one sided games of black jack, perhaps you should just call it a day and vent it out the good ol' fashion American way... By shooting shit up!
Located a bit off the strip is the gun store. A magical place where you go to blow off some steam that losing in sin city probably has caused. And don't give me this idea that you're better off burning money than shooting bullets cause it's all really the same. Only the quick pull of the trigger is like pulling off the band aid to your losses.
You wiggle your index finger a couple of times and you lift up the gun to set it up with the cardboard cut out you picked and with your vintage WW2 Tommy Gun you let it all out. Not only that, but you're reliving history by shooting off a classic gun of the such.
There's no mistaking it, this is as fun as it gets in Vegas, short of winning the big money jack pot. But we all know that takes hours of battling the card dealers.
Shut up and put your money where your mouth is, that's what you get for shooting up in Vegas!
The choice of guns here is out of sight. California has a silly room that they don't allow fully automatic weapons in the state. Vegas? Well, no such thing. They figure that nothing protects your home better than shooting a lot of bullets at once.
They have Machine guns, you could feel like a nazi with an MP40, a terrorist with an AK47, some counter terrorist with an MP5.
My favorites were the Tommy Gun, which felt so good in your hands. You could just picture the Third Reich forces just in front of you while you breath in, breath out and pull that trigger unloading a clip.
Then there was the one you feel like Rambo with.. the M249. This sucker will make you want to wrap some bullet belt to your chest and scream out "LET'S ROCK!"
The service here is excellent.. which I guess is for good reason, you are renting a gun from them. So perhaps that's why they treat you nice. Or maybe they just realize that if you try anything funny with them, they have an arsenal right at their finger tips. So this constant threat just makes them chill.
This is something different in Vegas that everyone should experience after having done the whole clubs, casinos and buffets. It's truly the American way.
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